Nebraska · Nonprofit
WORLD SPEAKS
WORLD SPEAKS (Nebraska) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $741,010 to it, the largest being THE SHERWOOD FOUNDATION ($295,545). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $618k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $741k
- Net assets
- $263k
What World Speaks does
Mission
World Speaks envisions a world where the voiceless are heard, the marginalized are included, & the vulnerable are safe. Our mission is to address socioeconomic gaps and injustices through cultural education, inclusion initiatives, and advocacy services.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Interpretation & translation - performed over 577 hours of interpretatino, 74 translation projects, and colaborated with nonprofits, government entities, school systems, and for profit business to enable access to their services.
$182,765 spent$157,182 earned by the program42% of program spendingOpen doors- provided housing related interpretation services at no cost and impacted 3,500+ individuals seeking housing access.
$112,680 spent26% of program spendingCommunity courses & tutoring- hosted 10 community courses, launched an interpretation training, provided language education to over 100 individuals.
$84,111 spent19% of program spendingOther program services, including general programming and justice speaks
$55,992 spent13% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $435,548.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $55k to $227k (+315%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Leah Whitney Chavez
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $25k → $220k.
From the IRS filings of WORLD SPEAKS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
WORLD SPEAKS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 56% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
99% of WORLD SPEAKS's grant income comes from Nebraska funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Organizations like WORLD SPEAKS
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Nebraska
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WORLD SPEAKS: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds WORLD SPEAKS?
- WORLD SPEAKS (Nebraska) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $741,010 to it, the largest being THE SHERWOOD FOUNDATION ($295,545). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WORLD SPEAKS have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $741,010 in grants to WORLD SPEAKS, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WORLD SPEAKS?
- THE SHERWOOD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $295,545 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WORLD SPEAKS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Nebraska. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2022–2025), and the filings of 7 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing